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March 05, 2009
23:00
What else I’ve been watching
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I started this post when I was talking about The Wire, I figured I’d put out a list of what else has been keeping my attention TV wise these days. Its late, but I already wrote most of it so I figured why not. I’m not really a huge TV person, never have been. I [...]
March 04, 2009
23:43
In which the absentee host returns. Again
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A very belated happy new year to you people. Apologies for the long absences. Again. At this point I’m pretty sure I’m down to just the people who forgot to remove me from their feed readers. Quick Updates on what I’ve been up to: I was officially awarded my Masters by Research in Physics. My parents and [...]
November 05, 2008
6:19
HE WON!!!!!
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Yes, I stayed up all night to watch the results come in. I’m still not entirely sure it happened though. We are officially living in interesting times people. Lets see how it goes
November 03, 2008
4:55
*Hat tip*
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Great race. And hopefully a good omen.
October 15, 2008
16:46
Recent additions to the bookshelf
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One of the advantages of this past year has been a commute from the south of London to the center of the city daily that meant I had between 1 1/2 and 2 hours sitting or standing while waiting to get where I was going. Sometimes that went to reading academic papers for my masters, [...]
October 10, 2008
11:29
And its done (pretty much)
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So I am (semi) officially done with my Masters. Research is done, my thesis has been turned in and I have defended it. While my results still have to be ratified by the college(pretty much a formality) I can say that I have a Masters by Research in Bio, Nano and X-Ray Photonics from the [...]
August 14, 2008
12:46
Not dead, missing or abandoned
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Just working on getting this thesis done as well as I possibly can for my Masters. After its done expect a bunch of rants about the evils of Visual Studio, my love of Python, Numpy, iPython, Matplotlib, Mayavi2 and . Oh, and musings about my slow but steady infatuation with judo. In the meantime Wish me luck, [...]
April 07, 2008
6:40
Aah, beaten to it(another Wire post)
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There was meant to be a follow up to my post on The Wire where I would discuss what a version of that show looking at Africa would look like. However I’ve been slow about writing these things and so fellow African geek aflakete pointed me to this post on Brown Man’s Burden that beat [...]
April 06, 2008
16:25
Why I will miss The Wire
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Some of you have heard of The Wire, a crime show that ran for 5 seasons on HBO and recently came to a close. Actually if you are a regular reader you probably have heard of it. I tend to run in those kinds of circles. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, the [...]
March 28, 2008
11:04
How did it take me so long to notice this?
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Proof that I’ve been neglecting my blogroll to a degree, I missed this TED talk. Its by Dr. Neil Turok, a Physicist at Cambridge and founder of AIMS(African institute of Mathematical Sciences) which is a school in South Africa that brings together students from all over the continent for a 9 month postgraduate course to learn [...]
February 25, 2008
14:45
the story so far…….
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As usual, there has been a bit of a time lag in my blogging. I’m working on getting more regular at this people. Until then please forgive the absences. I assure you I am actually working (most of)the time I am not here. Anyway, as far as school goes. I am almost done with the lectures [...]
January 07, 2008
18:40
Resolutions
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This is a few days late, but still, my list of things I want to achieve this year. Experience has been teaching me that by keeping the list short and as specific as I can it’ll be easier for me to actually achieve the things on it. Long, vague lists are a lot harder to [...]
December 31, 2007
7:57
This is not right
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I’ve been sort of idly paying attention to the Kenyan elections over the past week. Not really intensely, but just enough so I knew who was running and what was happening. In the last few days, its been hugely depressing to watch. Basically, the incumbent, Mwai Kibaki, looked to be losing handily to Raila Odinga, [...]
December 26, 2007
10:25
Another year passes
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As of a few days ago, I have officially been alive for 28 years. And the new year is also very close. The combination of the two coming so close to each other means that this time of year tends to be when I reflect extra hard on what I have achieved with my life [...]